Originally Posted by nasabiker

It is good that you respected the value of the bikes that were provided to you under a capitalist business model, and the investment that was made by the companies to bring you a service,but its obvious that many people do not share your ethic. therein lies the problem with communism and other similar arrangements. people by and large need a personal investment in something for them to take responsibility for its well-being. its a simple equation- why do I invest limited my time energy and skill in something if someone else will do it for me.

Originally Posted by MMACH 5

Originally Posted by acidfast7

(what is my ethic?)

Originally Posted by I-Like-To-Bike

Sounds more like "poised to prosper" as in wishful thinking. Unless you consider dumping a lot of unused/unworkable/unavailable vehicles of questionable reliability on the street as "prospering."

Extract from your posted site/article:

"While Seattle’s bike-share fleet is poised to grow, performance indicators have not been encouraging. Newly released data shows that with 10,000 bikes across all fleets citywide, ridership averaged about 7,000 daily trips in May and June, or 0.7 trips per bike per day.

One reason for the lackluster usage may be that many bikes are not actually available, depleting the capacity of bike-share and diminishing reliability. Testers with the Seattle Times found that nearly a third of the 206 bikes they spot-checked were unrideable, either because of “obvious damage” to the bike or glitches with the app-based unlocking mechanism.

The ability of the venture capital-backed bike-share companies to keep their fleets in workable condition has always been one of the big unknowns hanging over the business model. In Seattle, it’s still an open question."

Originally Posted by I-Like-To-Bike

Has Ofo ever operated legally in Phoenix; are they even in operation there at all, or have they just totally abandoned whatever crap-mobiles they previously dumped on the city?

Apparently Ofo is bailing out of the U.S. market
https://www.wsj.com/articles/china-b...ons-1531959910
"China Bike-Sharing Giant Ofo to Shut Most U.S. Operations

Updated July 18, 2018 9:04 p.m. ET

Less than a year after China’s Ofo Inc. entered the U.S. with big ambitions, the world’s largest bike-share company plans to shut down most of its U.S. operations, people familiar with the matter said.

Beijing-based Ofo told U.S. employees Wednesday that it is cutting the vast majority of its workforce in the U.S. and retreating to a handful of larger cities, these people said. Ofo told staff it is still determining which cities it will continue operating in, the people said. It has more than 40,000 bicycles in more than 30 U.S. markets."

Originally Posted by acidfast7

You were on a good roll and I shouldn't have disregarded you.

What is the evidence that people don't share my ethic (what is my ethic?)

Originally Posted by nasabiker

It as an assumption, I'll admit, but the assumption is that your ethic in this case is treating the bikes with some due care, as you are a bike guy like myself(otherwise why be on the forum or care about the bike share issues).

Originally Posted by acidfast7

It's an experience with European dockless bike systems. I never saw an issue with Call-a-Bike in Germany when I lived there.

Except that they were always in use!

https://www.callabike-interaktiv.de/en

Originally Posted by MMACH 5

That looks like an awesome system.